Prevalence and Intensity of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection among Rural Community of Southwest Ethiopia: A Community-Based Study

Table 3

Intensity of STHs among the Zemika Kebele community, southwest Ethiopia, 2016.

Parasite species	Geometric mean	Intensity of infection
		Light	Moderate	Heavy
		Number (%)	Number (%)	Number (%)
Trichuris trichiura	544 egg/gram	150 (62.2%)	87 (36.1%)	4 (1.1%)
Ascaris lumbricoides	2507 egg/gram	41 (70.7%)	17 (29.3%)	0 (%)
Hookworm	162 egg/gram	52 (100%)	0 (%)	0 (%)
Schistosoma mansoni	138 egg/gram	13 (39.4%)	20 (60.6%)	0 (%)